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Sunbeam clippers, trammel
bits. S.S. bits and spurs, pads,
wool blankets, ropes, bridles,
silver headstalls, Silver Show
halters, halters of all kinds, big
lead ropes, winter blankets,
100’s of items not listed. Tack
will be sold individuals and in
group lots.
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United Press International
TYLER — Federal authorities
investigating the starvation of a
herd of wild horses obtained
through the government’s
“Adopt-a-Horse” program have
subpoenaed four people to
appear before a grand jury.
“Agents working out of Tyler
served subpoenas on four peo-
C le, requiring them to appear
efore a federal grand jury
which will investigate the case,”
John Gumert, a spokesman for
the Bureau of Land Manage
ment, said Tuesday.
The grand jury is expected to
meet in January and names in
the subpoenas were ordered
withheld by the court, Gumert
said. He said BLM agents were
continuing investigation of the
case.
Northeast Texas rancher Joe
Corbett of Pittsburg was
charged last week with allowing
the horses to starve. Forty-two of
the horses have died.
Corbett, using power of attor
ney from 42 people, last Decem
ber paid $25 a head for the wild
mustangs taken from federal
lands in a program to control the
size of herds in Nevada.
Corbett has been charged
with state violations of cruelty to
animals. Gumert said Multiple
state charges likely will be filed
later. Federal charges may also
be filed.
BLM officials Tuesday con
ducted a lottery for the remain
der of the herd taken from Cor
bett’s ranch about 100 miles
northeast of Dallas. Gumert said
129 animals would be given to
their new owners at no cost.
He said about 500 people had
put in requests for the horses.
“We put all of the names in a
box and and selected them in a
lottery this morning,” Gumert
said. “The first one picked has
first choice and we expect to be
gin calling the first 40 or 50 peo
ple tonight.
“I just got a call and was in
formed that due to the
emergency nature of the situa
tion there would be no fee
charged to the people receiving
these horses,” he said.
The order to give the horses
away was issued by BLM Dire
ctor Robert Buford, Gumert
said, “based on the fact this is an
emergency situation and these
animals will require additional
medical attention and veterina
rian fees.”
Prospective owners selected
in the lottery can adopt up to two
horses.
Hunters last month found
many of the horses starving on
an overgrazed pasture leased by
Corbett 100 miles northeast of
Dallas. Gumert said 36 animals
died in Pittsburg and another six
had died since being moved to a
ranch outside of Tyler operated
by Fund for Animals.
Claims: ‘I am not guilty’
AGGIELAND PICTURES
(Jrs., Srs., Grad Students)
being taken at
Yearbook Associates
1700 Puryear 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
More information
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Liz Chagra makes plea
DIETING?
Even though we do not prescribe
diets, we make it possible for many to
enjoy a nutritious meal while they
follow their doctor's orders. You will
be delighted with the wide selection
of low calorie, sugar free and fat free
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United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — Elizabeth
Chagra, wife of the Las Vegas,
New, gambler who prosecutors
contend had federal Judge John
Wood killed, broke down and
cried during testimony in which
she claimed her only involve
ment in the case was helping
transfer the pay-off money to
accused triggerman Charles
Harrelson.
Mrs. Chagra testified Mon
day she had no prior knowledge
of plans to have Wood mur
dered. She claimed tapes made
by the FBI that recorded her
talking to her husband Jimmy
about the slaying merely caught
her joking about Wood.
“I’m not a participant in this
crime,” Mrs. Chagra said. “I am
not guilty of this.”
Mrs. Chagra said she took
$250,000 from El Paso to Las
Vegas and gave it to Teresa
Starr, the stepdaughter of sus
pected hitman Charles Harrel
son, but Mrs. Chagra testilie'.
she did not know what the
money was for until her brother-
in-law Joe Chagra told her.
“He said 1 paid Charlie Har-
relson’s daughter,” Mrs. Chagra
said. “He said Charlie was the
man Jimmy had hired to kill
Judge Wood.”
Mrs. Chagra was charged
with conspiracy and obstruction
of justice in the 1979 slaying of
Wood, who was killed in front of
his San Antonio townhouse.
Also on trial are Harrelson,
charged with murder, and Har-
relson’s wife, JoAnn, who was
accused of buying the gun that
killed Wood.
Prosecutors contend that
Chagra hired Harrelson to kill
Wood because the Las Vegas
gambler was scheduled for trial
before Wood, who was known
for his harsh sentences in narco-
Mrs. Chagra said she was just
joking when her husband asked
her advice about whether to kill
Wood. On the secretly made
FBI recording, Mrs. Chagra re
plied “Yeah, do it.”
“You can tell when you listen
to the tape we are making a
joke,” she told Assistant U.S.
Attorney Ray Jahn. “Can’t you
tell? He laughs after I said that
because he knows it’s not true. I
wanted to make light of the
whole conversation."
Mrs. Chagra said her hus
band promised to plead guilty to
the slaying but later refused.
“He always told me. I didn’t
have to lie,” Mrs. Chagra said
about possible testimony. She
said Chagra told her “if they
didn’t believe me, he would con
fess.”
Theater is next best
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AGGIELAND
PHOTOGRAPHERS
will he at the
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Monday, Dec. 6 - Friday, Dec. 10
to take yearbook pictures
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Vet Students MUST have pictures taken be
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United Press International
FORT WORTH, Texas —
An 80- foot- wide con
cave screen and 10 speakers
around the theater will give peo
ple at the Fort Worth Museum
of Science & History one of the
most realistic film depiction of
events available in the world,
officials say.
“It’s funny to watch the audi
ence at these films sometimes,”
said museum spokeswoman Lin
da Baker. “It may be a shot from
an airplane cockpit and the
plane turns left and everyone in
the audience leans to the left.”
Scheduled for opening the
first week of March, the 356-seat
Omni Theater will utilize special
Omnimax motion pictures pro
jected onto a tilted dome screen
to give the viewer a three-
dimensional effect.
Baker said the sound is distri
buted through a $250,000 audio
system that follows the action on
the screen. If, for instance, the
picture is of a train moving right
to left, the sound would be trans
ferred from the right side of the
theater to the left side.
“(It will be) far and away the
largest and most technically adv
anced entertainment and educa
tional facility of its kind in the
world,” said museum executive
director Donald R. Otto.
Only 11 other theaters using
the Omnimax system exist in the
world, he said. The Fort Worth
theater is the largest and the first
permanent Omni Theater in
Texas.
Omnimax film is 70 mm wide
with an image area three times
that of the standard 70 mm film
shown in conventional movie
theaters.
The projector, developed by
IMAX Systems Corporation in
Toronto, is threaded on the
ground floor then raised by an
elevator to the second floor
where the film is projected. The
film stretches from horizontal
reels up one story through the
projector, then back down to the
main floor where it is rewound.
Where the film in convention
al cameras and projectors moves
through vertically, the huge
Omnimax system uses a rolling
loop which advances the film
horizontally in gentle catterpil-
lar-like waves. The film is held
firmly against the rear element
of the lens by a vaccuum for
optimum picture and focus
steadiness.
The hemisphere screen, with
its apex 40 feet from the floor, is
tilted at a 30 degree angle to the
audience.
The construction budget for
the 30,000-square-foot theater
is $8 million, all provided by pri
vate donations, Ms. Baker said.
The first film planned is “To
Fly,” a history of flight.
“In our new Omni Theater
you will begin to feel that you are
actually participating in the film,
not simply viewing it,” Otto said.
“Our greatest single challenge
now will be to convey the reality
of something that is almost im
possible to describe through
words or pictures alone. It must
be experienced.”
While Star Wars and other fe
ature films are not available for
Omni Theaters, Ms. Baker said
people will enjoy the education
al films planned.
“There are only about 30
films in existence right now
which can be used on this sys
tem, with more being pro
duced,” Ms. Baker said. “We be
lieve they are entertaining as
well as educational.”
Now you know
United Press International
A breath and saliva test soon
may allow women to accurately
predict their optimum fertile
periods.
Chemists James Kostelc and
George Preti of the Monell Che
mical Senses Center in Philadel
phia report in the December
issue of Science Digest that they
have found a correlation be
tween levels of mouth odor and
saliva chemicals and fluctuations
in basic body temperature dur
ing the menstrual cycle.
Analysis of women’s breath
showed that volatile sulfur com
pounds or VSCs, which result
from the breakdown of sulfur-
containing amino acids, vary in
concentration throughout the
month.
“In a study of a dozen women
through 18 monthly cycles, we
found the concentration of the
compounds is highest within 48
hours of ovulation,” Preti
observed. The pair also has
analyzed chemicals present in
saliva and found that the levels
of the substance are five to 10
times higher at ovulation than at
other times.
The test now is done in a lab
with a machine called a gas chro
matograph. But Personal Diag
nostics, a New Jersey firm, is
working on a portable instru
ment that would enable women
to monitor themselves.
United Press International
Computers are even replacing
the old-fashioned two-way
radios in some Canadian tax
icabs.
Now a flashing message on a
computer-linked video display
terminal can tell a hack where to
pick up the next fare, according
to a report in the December
issue of Science Digest.
When a driver is ready to take
on a fare, he punches in a code
on his cab's computer terminal,
which then radios the central
dispatching office. This signals
the computer to display on the
cab’s screen a list of all taxi zones
and the number of empty cabs in
each. The cabbie then decides
which one to head for and alerts
the computer of his intention.
If a call comes into the dis
patching office and the driver is
in the right zone, a buzzer
sounds in the taxi and the fare’s
location flashes on the screen.
The system is in use in four
Canadian cities. It’s supposed to
cut down on cruising time. The
elimination of jarring sounds of
a radio is supposed to be a lot
easier on the ears and nerves of
both drivers and passengers.